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Album review: MARK PONTIN GROUP – Days Of Destiny
Moochee Records [Release date 08.05.13] Mark Pontin Band’s liner notes on ‘Days Of Destiny, makes clear the essential connection between his struggles to get this recording made and the thematic title track of a power trio album with real substance. … Continue reading
Album review: JOHNNY DOWD – Do The Gargon
Mother Jinx Records [Release date 05.08.13] ‘The record took two weeks to make, which is plenty if you know what you’re doing’, says New York based Texan exile Johnny Dowd. He seems to know what he’s doing, as he … Continue reading
Album review: ANTOINE FAFARD – Occultus Tramitis
Unicorn Digital [Release date 01.06.13] Fusion music often throws an unexpected curve ball at the humble listener, and prog fusion such as this with its musical density, ever changing time signatures and challenging improvisation sometimes pushes the envelope beyond the … Continue reading
Album review: THE PROOF – 100% The Proof
Note Records [Release date 31.05.13] Paul Cox has always been a singer in search of the perfect song and when the two meet head on, sparks tend to fly. And so it is with ‘100% The Proof’, an album that … Continue reading
Album review: WILLIE NILE – American Ride
Blue Rose Records [Release date 24.06.13] Willie Nile is a true blue collar troubadour with a poet’s eye for colourful analytical prose. He’s worked every bar, club and theatre in town, world-wide and he’s excited audiences big and small with … Continue reading
Album review: DICKEY BETTS – Pattern Disruptive
Retroworld [Release date 29.07.13] Listening to this kick ass record, it’s hard to imagine that the Allman Brothers Band legend Dickey Betts was without a record contract and hadn’t recorded for the best part of 7 years. He came back … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN KLINE – Different Drummers
Wet Present Records [Release date 23.11.12] With the exception of the title track which features drummer Michael Arata, ‘Different Drummers’ is a completely self penned, engineered and produced album by multi instrumentalist John Kline. He leads on guitar, but plays … Continue reading
Album review: JONNY LANG – Fight For My Soul
Provogue [Release date 02.09.13] It’s a measure of Jonny Lang’s maturity that he’s slowly but surely repositioned himself in the music scene as a dance friendly, contemporary white boy soul singer at the ripe old age of 32. I say … Continue reading
Interview with JONNY LANG – 26 June 2013
Jonny Lang is back after a 7 year hiatus with a groundbreaking new album ‘Fight For My Soul’, which falls back on his formative influences of R&B and soul. Judged simply in terms of relentless road work – that is … Continue reading
Album review: KINVER – The Stone House
Eye-Pea [Release date 19.03.13] The doomed romanticism and fragility of Nick Drake has a lot to answer for in term of contemporary folk music. His biographer Trevor Dann pointed to a foreboding and fatalism at the heart of his work … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE CICHON – Meltdown
Stephen Andrew Cichon [Release date 03.06.13] Florida’s prog/fusion guitarist Steve Cichon’s last instrumental album ‘Cranial Feedback’ was notable for its inventive guitar playing, shifting tone colours and vacillating twists and turns. ‘Meltdown’ extends his penchant for relentless guitar pyrotechnics with … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Zappa, fusion, guitar, Jethro Tull, Joe Satriani, metal, prog, review, space rock, Steve Cichon, Steve Hillage, Steve Vai
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Interview with GARY BONER (ROADHOUSE) – 2 August 2013
22 years into their career, the hard gigging Roadhouse release ‘Gods & Highways & Old Guitars’, the best album of their career on Krossborder records. It pays homage to the darker elements of the American south and would fit into … Continue reading
Album review: BUDDY GUY – Rhythm & Blues
RCA Silvertone [Release date 29.07.13] The cornerstone to Buddy Guy’s first ever double album is the relatively late definition of the term blues. The music he first started playing was R&B – CD1 provides the rhythm and CD2 the blues … Continue reading
Album review: PETE THOMAS & THE HORNS APLENTY – Big
Mermaid Records [Release date 22.07.13] To say that the opening track on Pete Thomas & The Horns A Plenty’s ‘Big’ has swagger, is to underestimate the title of the album that is big in tone, intent and performance. ‘Big’ brims … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE COCHRANE – La La La: Variations On A Happy Song
Spirit Compass Music [Release date 02.07.12] ‘La La La: Variations On a Happy Song’ is Canadian prog rock artist Steve Cochrane’s metaphorical meditations on the human condition. It’s a thematically linked suite spread over 9 tracks on which sharply contrasting … Continue reading
Album review: ROOMFUL OF BLUES – 45 Live
Alligator [Release date 29.07.13] If Roomful of Blues are the kind of band who are labelled as Heritage Music, then their historical take on American music is one dominated by horn led blues and swing. They consistently have one eye … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HUNTER – The Manhattan Blues Project
Deacon Records [Release date 30.04.13] ‘I wanted to look at New York in a slightly different way – I wanted to look at it in a soulful, bluesy way’. Steve Hunter’s mission statement for this album is the guitarist musical … Continue reading
Album review: ROADHOUSE – Gods & Highways & Old Guitars
Krossborder [Release date 19.08.13] Roadhouse have long impressed with their unique take on southern roots rock and Americana, but ‘Gods & Highways & Old Guitars’ raises the bar to another level. As ever, the 10 songs come with Gary Boner’s … Continue reading
Album review: OLI BROWN – Songs From the Road
Ruf [Release date 14.06.13] Anyone who has followed Oli Brown’s career so far, will hardly be surprised by the sense of adventure at the heart of this live DVD/CD. For though he was schooled in the blues at an early … Continue reading
Album review: DANA FUCHS – Bliss Avenue
Ruf [Release date 22.07.13] If blues is too often predicated on the tried and tested theme of: ‘my baby done me wrong’; then Dana Fuchs cleverly extends such familiar subject matter from an autobiographical source and into universal themes that we … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bliss Avenue, blues, country, Dana Fuchs, Janis Joplin, Jon Diamond, review, rock, southern rock, The Faces
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Album review: OMAR DYKES – Runnin’ With The Wolf
Provogue [Release date 09.07.13] ‘Runnin’ With The Wolf’ is pretty much in keeping with Omar Dykes’s new found role as an interpreter of the blues. It’s a role far removed from his 90’s heyday with Provogue records, the label he … Continue reading
Album review: MIKE ZITO & THE WHEEL – Gone To Texas
Ruf [Release date 17.06.13] Mike Zito’s ‘Gone To Texas’ is both a literal and metaphorical title, reflecting the fact he’s overcome his previous drug and alcohol problems and has moved to Texas from the mid- west in search of sobriety … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Cyril Neville, Delbert McLinton, Devon Allman, Lightnin Hopkins, Little Feat, Mike Zito, New Orleans, North Mississippi Allstars, review, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Sonny Landreth, Susan Cowsill, Tex Mex, Texas
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Album review: THE RIDES – Can’t Get Enough
Provogue [Release date 26.08.13] It’s ten years since the release of the re-mastered ‘Super Session’ on CD, with Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, and it’s a startling 45 years since its original release. And while it would … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Kooper, Barry Goldberg, blues, Buffalo Springfield, Chris Layton, Double Trouble, Elmore James, guitar, Iggy Pop, Jerry Harrison, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kevin McCormick, Mike Bloomfield, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, piano, review, Stephen Stills, Super Session, supergroup, Talking Heads, The Rides
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Album review: DAVE DAVIES – I Will Be Me
Cleopatra [Release date 04.06.13] Partly autobiographical and partly fictive imagery but always routed in a spiritual feel, Dave Davies’s ‘I Will Be Me’ is an uneven but ultimately enjoyable album. He veers from the past – referencing his riff driven … Continue reading
Gig review: ANDY FRASER – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 6 July 2013
The return of Andy Fraser was as unexpected as some of the material he played tonight. Yes, he glanced back over his shoulder at some of the best of Free, while guitarist Chris Spedding weighed in with his hit ‘Motorbiking’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Fraser, bass, Boom Boom Club, Chris Spedding, Free, guitar, John Mayer, Malcolm Bruce, review, rock, Sutton Utd FC, Tobi
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